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WROB BiWeekly Newsletter (Boston Area Events)

MEMBER NEWS & EVENTS:

Member Mary Bonina’s is reading this Saturday, March 13 (7 P.M.) at Pierre Menard Gallery. The event is free (and listed below)!

Member Pam Greenberg’s book The Complete Psalms: The Book of Prayer Songs in a New Translation comes out on March 30! She will also be giving a reading on April 22at Porter Square Books in Cambridge. We’ll keep you posted on the details, and congratulations, Pam!

The 2010 Fellows Reading is being scheduled and for sometime in the first or second week of April. More information will come in the next newsletter.

These newsletters will now come to you biweekly with all the events I can possibly squeeze into them. You can also find the latest newsletter up on our website: http://www.writersroomofboston.org/news.htm

Let me know about any announcements for our weekly newsletter. You can send them to Hannah at info@writersroomofboston.org and I’d be happy to post the information.

READINGS & EVENTS:

Saturday, March 13:

DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN AND ALFRED NICOL
3 pm | Powow River Poets Reading Series | Jabberwocky Books | 50 Water St., (Tannery Mall) | Newburyport, MA

Hanging Loose editors DONNA BROOK, ROBERT HERSHON, DICK LOURIE, AND MARK PAWLAK, plus HL authors MARY BONINA (wrob member and board member!!) & BILL CORBETT.
7 pm | Reading to Celebrate Hanging Loose Press (44 years young) | Pierre Menard Gallery | 10 Arrow Street | Harvard Square | Cambridge

HENRI COLE
3 pm | Reading and Reception | Pierre Menard Gallery | 10 Arrow Street | Harvard Square

Monday, March 15:
MEG KEARNEY AND ELLEN WEHLE
8 pm | Blacksmith House | 56 Brattle Street | Harvard Square | $3

Thursday, March 18:
SABRINA ORAH MARK
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | info to come

DAMON KRUKOWSKI AND MATVEI YANKELEVICH
7pm | An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse | Brookline Booksmith | 279 Harvard Street
Brookline

Friday, March 19:
POETS JAY PETERS AND GREGORY STENTA; FICTION BY CASSIE CONDREY AND ABBY MACHSON-CARTER
7 pm | Brookline Booksmith | 279 Harvard Street | Coolidge Corner | Brookline

Saturday, March 20:
IYEOKA OKOAWO AND THOMAS LIBBY
5 pm | Poetry Series at the Brockton Library | 304 Main Street | Brockton, MA

JENNIFER HAYASHIDA AND KEVIN VARRONE
6 pm | Ada Books | 717 Westminster St. | Providence, RI

LAWRENCE JOHNSON, OEN KENNEDY AND TARA GREENBLATT
10:30 am | Wake up and Smell the Poetry | HCAM Studios, 77 Main St., Hopkinton, MA,

Sunday, March 21:

1 pm | The Writers' Circle 2010 Anthology Book Signing Party | (Bob Colonna, Robert Levinson, Jon Land, Susan Bergeron, Dorothy Clark, Charles Greaves, David Howard, Ashley O'Brien, Sally Sanford, Marcia Taylor, Charles Whitin, Mike Fink, Nellie Fagen, Robert Mariani, James Marlow, Celest Martin, Patricia Pierannunzi, Martha Collins, Carol Anderheggen, Nancy Brown, Tom Chandler, Lisa Christine, Jack Coulehan, Diane Dolphin, Lawrence Krips, Silent Lotus, Michael Mack, Brett Rutherford, Michael Sheff, Lisa Starr, Christopher Stewart, and Heather Sullivan) | Borders Books at the Providence Place Mall | Providence, Rhode Island

ADAM EAGLIN, NATHAN HOGAN, MASHA OBOLENSKY, AND JILL MAIO
4 pm | AGNI's offices in the basement of 236 Bay State Road | Boston

Monday, March 22:
FORREST GANDER AND TOM HEALY
8 pm Blacksmith House | 56 Brattle Street | Harvard Square | $3

MAYOR’S PROSE AND POETRY AWARD WINNERS
7:00PM | Boston Public Library | Come hear the winners of the Mayor's Prose and Poetry Contest. Hosted by Sam Cornish, Boston's Poet Laureate.

Wednesday, March 24:
NAOMI CHASE AND ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS
7 pm | Porter Square Books | 25 White Street | Porter Square | Cambridge

PAM REHM AND ROSMARIE WALDROP
7:30 pm | Contemporary Writers Reading Series | McCormack Family Theater | 70 Brown St. | Providence

Group Listing for Charles Olson Centenary Celebration
in Worcester, MA | See http://www.wcpa.homestead.com for updates, more specifics and contact info

Project Verse: A Reading by Students in Worcester Area Colleges
7 pm | Led by Susan Richmond and Ian Williams | Clark University

Thursday, March 25:
ANNE WALDMAN
7 pm | Salisbury Labs 115 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Friday, March 26,
All Day Olson Centenary Events | Dana Commons, Clark University

Saturday March 27:
All Day Olson Centenary Events | Dana Commons, Clark University

JESS MYNES AND JOHN COLETTI
3 pm | Unaffiliated Reading Series | The Field | 20 Prospect St | Cambridge, MA

ETC… (GRANTS, AWARDS, CONTESTS, JOBS, CONFERENCES)

If you haven’t been to the Poets & Writers website recently (or ever) take a second to check out their Tools for Writers page. You’ll find information on magazines, job listings, grants & awards and more. Go to http://www.pw.org/toolsforwriters

The Association of Writer’s and Writing Programs (AWP) is also an excellent resource for grants and deadlines. If you are a member of The Writers' Room you also have special access to some of AWP’s content. Email info@writersroomofboston.org for details. AWP Conference is in Denver, CO this year, check out AWP’s website for more details.

MEMBER BLOGS & WEBSITES:

Mark Schafer
http://www.beforesaying.com

Maria Mayobre
www.mariamayobre.com

Mary Bonina
http://www.marybonina.com

Maureen Rogers
http://pinkslipblog.blogspot.com

Katrin Schumann
http://www.momstimeouts.com/posts/

Katherine Ozment
www.katherineozment.com.

Dianne Webb
http://diannekwebb.com

WRITING CLASSES

Boston Center for Adult Education

Cambridge Center for Adult Education

Ethan Gilsdorf (click on workshops tab)

Grub Street, Inc.

Harvard Extension

Newton Community Education